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Monday, 23 September 2013

Mystery project A complete

This was made for the #stitchingpiratesSailing the fruit contest however as the rules say that there must be 2 pieces of fruit this is
not my final entry - I need to add something else before it is eligible
hehe. That said I just couldn't wait to share as I'm rather pleased with
the end results.

When
I first saw the competition my eyes lit up as I have been wanting to
make the patter for this ever since I saw the pattern in a magazine called Ariadne way
back in September of 1989 and I've been keeping this magazine for this
very pattern ever since. I always looked at it and thought - this is too
difficult - I can't do this. The main reason being that it's 3 threads
over 2 on 28 count even weave, not just any old 3 threads but 1 - 3
different colours of floss per 3 threads that get used. with just 11
base colours I created 30 colours of blended thread and only 2 were 3
the same colour together. As a result it used a LOT of thread and I used
more than 1 1/2 skeins of one of the reds and used a lot of all the
other colours too. Towards the end when I had again ran out of red I was
looking at the bits of leftover floss from the other combined colours
to find enough to finish - I had the same issue with the orange, however
I wasn't able to find enough of that so, as I didn't want to wait till
Wednesday when I'd have more money for floss I decided to look at what I
did have and use an alternative to the orange

Before It looked like that it looked like the picture above - reminded me a bit of those Caribbean hats with fruit on them that they used to do on adverts. and I was wondering if it would ever come out right - fortunately it did but it was really fiddly to do.

I dyed a bit of
leftover corset rope (as I call it - it's a really thin cotton rope)
with coffee to make it brown and used that as the "stalk" I used black
floss to make the "fluff" you find at the base of apples.